Stars optimistic about AI’s cinematic potential.
Hollywood has been, to say the least, hesitant about AI in the last year. Indeed, the largest strike in sixty years has at its core a fear and loathing of artificial intelligence. Yet a world away, at the 90th Venice Film Festival, a more hopeful, optimistic view of AI’s cinematic potential is being endorsed by some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, including Tom Hanks, Robert Zemekis, Joe Russo and Darren Aronofsky.
While promoting his AI-powered movie Here by Robert Zemeckis, Hanks said he could see an AI version of himself acting after his death. Joe Russo, director of Avengers Endgame envisions a future where people can come home after a long day to ask their AI TV for a new movie starring themselves and Marilyn Monroe.
Director Harmony (Kids, Spring Breakers, Beach Bums) Korine premiered his AI FilmAggro Dr1ft, which used the Gen AI application Stable Diffusion to create the stunning visuals in the film. The new AI-assisted work was lauded by Variety, which said the film constituted a “hard reset for the rules of filmmaking.
